Tag name : technology future

May 16th, 2017

Japanese automotive giant Toyota Motor in order to support the project of a flying vehicle, developed by the engineers of the startup Cartivator decided to finance the development. Ready-made full-size prototype investor expects to receive in 2019.This development is positioned as the most compact flying device in the world (length - 2900 mm and width - 1300 mm). The machine is equipped with three...

May 12th, 2017

What does the traveler need most? Would you say a roof over your head or breakfast at McDonald's? And here not. All the tourists know,that Internet is vital. Let the language bring even to Kiev, even to Beijing, but is access to the Web will allow you to quickly find and a night's lodging, and a place with good food. And what if there is no Wi-Fi? Experts from Airbnb are already working on solving...

April 29th, 2017

Already for over 30 years, Mazda has produced one of the best sports cars on the planet - the MX-5. Despite a very old recipe, Mazda has never deviated from the philosophy of the original, retaining the rear-wheel drive, a convertible roof, a small motor and two seats.Holding it in my head, car designer Stefano Iroldy decided to imagine what a single Mazda sports car might look like, aimed at figh...

April 20th, 2017

Can skyscrapers of the future distribute apartments, as like chocolates in vending machines? It is this concept that is embedded in the project Pod Skyscraper, which is a skyscraper, whose construction never ends. A building that can grow infinitely long. Inspirers were tiny apartments, capsule hotels, robots and machines with various goods. The proposed modular design will allow to finish buildin...

April 7th, 2017

Zheng Jia-Jia, a 31-year-old expert on artificial intelligence from Hangzhou, China, recently got into all the headlines after he married an one-year-old woman! He married the 1-year-old Yingying, the "female" robot that he built himself.He married her on March 31 this year, observing all the traditions of the national Chinese wedding (marriage with a robot in the country is not legalized and is n...

March 30th, 2017

The New York Architectural Bureau Clouds Architecture Office shared plans for the most incredible architectural project of the last time: a skyscraper that will literally hang from the sky and is built on an asteroid that hangs in orbit. That is, his first floor will be in space, and the roof on the Earth.The building will be called the Analemma Tower, and architects suggest building it over Dubai...

March 27th, 2017

Much has been talked about Apple's plans for augmented reality (AR). For some people it is a little abracadabra: how does it work, how does it look like, what good is it? The answer to that question is somewhat clearer by this iPhone X concept. Here has envisioned the iPhone X, an Apple smartphone concept that focuses on augmented reality features. This concept shows a borderless screen with augme...

March 27th, 2017

The American company Lockheed Martin is developing the supersonic passenger airliner QueSST, which will become much quieter than any existing aircraft.Supersonic aircraft is developed in the division Skunk Works company Lockheed Martin. The main task of designers working on the QueSST project is to prevent the emergence of shock waves that form a plane in flight at supersonic speed. Sharp pressure...

March 14th, 2017

The Bell Helicopter Company demonstrated at the Heli-Expo 2017 the prototype helicopter, which will serve as a "road map for the future of helicopter technology." This concept helicopter does not fly, it is designed to show the main directions that the company plans to work on in the coming years and decades. But the flying prototype of such a helicopter would look like this. The interior of the n...

March 11th, 2017

NVIDIA, which specializes in video card manufacturing, introduced the next-generation Jetson platform, which is designed to help manufacturers integrate artificial intelligence into their devices. According to the manufacturer, Jetson TX2 is twice as productive as its predecessor, TX1, and also consumes less power. Jetson TX2 is based on the Pascal GPU and received two 64-bit 4-core ARM-processors...